Sometimes, love can happen from consuming the gingerbread made by a hopeful maiden, but when the time is right, love can grow even without the help of gingerbread. However a little gingerbread never hurts, right?

Depressed over thinking she’ll be fired before the holidays, Bella decides to get drunk at the company party. Woken the next morning by Rose texting her to look at Facebook posts from the night before, she realizes exactly how drunk she got—and it’s bad. She and Santa were very naughty, but the worst comes when Bella realizes exactly who was playing Santa. Suddenly, Bella’s last day takes on new meaning as she struggles to resist temptation.

Law student Edward Cullen's only dream was to get into Harvard with the best of the best. But dreams change, or do they simply just grow with time. Inspired by the song "Then" by Brad Paisley. AH/AU

Summary: Antique or Ikea, Beautiful inside or out, maim or kill, he had decisions to make today that would change his life.

Shy, reserved Edward has a little too much Jack Daniels after finding his fiancée cheating on him. Waking up the next morning in a strange woman’s bed, he fights the pull he feels for her. Will he realize they're fated for each other, or will he only focus on their differences?

***So that you know up front, this story has been pulled after the first chapter. It still makes a lemony-filled one shot if you want to read it as-is. If you're interested in the published version, you can find me in the Amazon store under my real name, Lara Norman.***

A look into the windows of a modern traveling Gypsy as she explores the country she lives in. *Rating for Language*

The Family secrets are out now it's time for the family surprises to be revealed. ******Sequel to Family Secrets****** Contains Adult themes.

Summary: Parenting can be a hard job to tackle, but it can be harder when you are parallel parenting between twins. Whatever will these two do with the girls they love corrupting their lives?
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Edward witnesses his father’s murder and is seen leaving. Bella is tired of being on the receiving end of her husbands’ fists and words. If they want to stay alive, they’ll have to run for their lives…no matter the cost. Inspired by the Three Days Grace song. M for Language and Adult Situations. 

Princess isabella has been hidden away for her own safety since she was a child, but once she returns to the world she once knew, all bets are off. The fairytale ending is just the beginning of her tale.

A failed marriage and long divorce left Edward with a lot on his hands. Moving his kids closer to his family in New York was the fresh start he needed so that his family could thrive. Not knowing how he would juggle work and caring for his kids, he jumped at the chance to hire his brother's nanny to care for his own kids. But the moment Bella walked into his house everything changed. She started out as the nanny, but she quickly became everything he wanted.  

Bella's POV of this story is posted as Everything I Needed.

Charlie owes the mob an obscene amount of money and  it’s time to pay up. The problem is, he doesn't have the money. So in a last bid to save his own neck, he offers them his daughter. Dark Romance.

While doing fifteen years for Drug and Gun trafficking a drug lord content with his existence gets a letter from a plain jain book worm not so content with hers. They start as pen pals while he does time, but when Fast Eddie Cullen is released on a technicality. He has two goals, return his empire to what it was, and have Bella by his side. A/H Cannon Lemons Language

Edward Cullen is the heir-apparent to the most infamous crime families in Chicago. He was notorious for his time with his enemies, his many dates and his ruthless skill in the board room, the front for the illicit dealings of the Cullen Crime Consortium. However, to take over the family, his father reminded him about the stipulation that Edward needed to be married. Edward hated that stipulation, but he agreed to it and he had less than a year to make it a reality.

Isabella Swan is a struggling graduate student, working as a waitress in a local diner, The Swan Dive. On a chance meeting, Edward finds Bella to be enchanting and the perfect woman to marry. He makes an indecent proposal, suggesting marriage and paying for Bella’s tuition, and then some. Will Bella accept his proposal, with the possibility of having her dreams come true, but married to a sexy, enigmatic rich businessman? Or will she figure out the truth, that her future-husband is Married to the Mob?

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Coming home to Forks after being gone four years, everything looks and feels the same. Edward couldn’t wait to see the love of his life, Bella. She’s the one he left behind, but, first, his attention is captured by a young girl that looks just like him, and the woman with her is just who he came to see. Could the little girl be his?

After dealing with a life-changing obstacle, will Edward and Bella find their HEA? 

When Bella meets Edward dressed as Santa at the mall, they feel an instant attraction. Will their problem children interfere, causing them to give up on finding love with each other?

Dr. Edward Masen lived a lonely, miserable existence as an emergency room attending at Harborview Medical Center. He ate, breathed and lived for his job. He refused to even think about women. To him, they were only distractions and he didn't trust anyone, except his mother. 

Dr. Isabella Swan just moved to Seattle, after completing her residency in Chicago. She was hired as a pediatrician at Harborview, becoming a pediatric emergency room fellow. She was not looking for a relationship, only focusing on her job. It was hate at first sight for both. Or was it? But, their attraction could not be denied. 

Unfortunately, a natural disaster rattles their lives ... the world was turned upside down when escalating earthquakes plagued the Seattle area. Will they able to survive the danger of being on Shaky Ground? 

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It's late October. It's time for Eddie 'The Vampire' to own the airwaves at night like he has done for the last forty-three years with 'The Hairy Claw'. Rosalie is a new hire to the radio show who is set to find the truth about Eddie. What will she find?

When life isn’t worth living, what’s a girl to do? Sometimes, not living life is the best way to feel truly alive. An entry for TreatsAndTricks3 Contest.

He buried his secrets, but he should have checked for a pulse.

Summary: After her parents are murdered, Bella and her brothers flee to the protection of their Godfather. When Bella discovers information that puts her life at risk, her only choice is to marry a man that she hates. Edward is a hard man, one that wants nothing to do with his reluctant bride. Can this pair ever learn to love each other...before their enemies destroy them? AH E/B

Edward Cullen is a fallen angel, living among humans. He’s dark, snarky, tattooed and a total badass. However, he still has his wings and angelic powers because the ‘powers that be’ believe that he is capable of redemption, despite being cast out of heaven. His exile was due to the fact that he was interacting with an unknown evil that tempted him over sixty years ago. Because of his mistake, he’s resigned to live out his immortal existence as a bitter angel, caught in limbo.

Isabella Swan, a human, is in the wrong place at the wrong time. In her innocence, she manages to worm her way into his heart, bringing him back into the light and out of the darkness.

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Isabella's parents were murdered. Her sister betrayed her and her marriage is on the rocks. Things couldn't get any worse, right? Bratella Mobward - PART TWO - The Ties That Bind

They met at Emerson University, fell in love and began their journey. Four years after the release of their first single, Edward and Bella Cullen are still going strong and happy with their lives. Breaking Midnight, the band that had brought them together is on top of the music charts, winning numerous accolades and awards.

Nothing can stop them.

Or so it would seem …

Ghosts from their past rear their ugly heads and will it be too much for this couple? Will their fairy tale happily ever after crumble? Only time will tell, but one thing is steadfast...

Sequel to La Cantante

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Edward Cullen is a famous movie star as is his girlfriend Tanya, the mother of his child. Their son is a week old and can't seem to keep any formula down. Annoyed by the crying and finding motherhood tedious, Tanya takes off for the spa and a commercial shoot leaving Edward alone with their newborn. 

After trying nearly every formula on the market, Esme, Edward's sister suggests breast milk. It seems like a long shot, but when Bella Swan answers the unusual ad, Edward thinks all of his problems are solved. His son is doing well, but he has a new problem, an undeniable attraction for the woman who saved his son's life. 

Edward has been trying to pick up the pieces of his shattered life since Bella left, albeit unsuccessfully. Upon Bella's return to Forkchaun, she hasn't had much luck moving forward either. Will Edward go chasing his 'Lucky Charm' or will he accept she's gone for good?

Bella Swan was dreading going back to her ten year high school reunion, over Valentine’s Day Weekend, for Hillsborough High School. Her time in high school in Tampa, Florida was not high on her list of pleasant experiences. She was quiet, unassuming and secretly in love with Edward Cullen. It was that unrequited love that forced her to move away to Seattle, as far from Tampa as possible. He never knew she existed. Or so she thought.

Edward was looking forward to his high school reunion because he was anxious to see the one that got away. Bella Swan was the quiet girl who never really interacted with anyone, but Edward saw that she was something special. But as ruler of the school, he had certain expectations to maintain. It was one of his biggest regrets. His life would have been easier if he had followed his heart. Now, he was a divorced father of two. His ex-wife, Tanya, who was his high school girlfriend, left him for a younger man and abandoned her children.

Will Bella be happy to see Edward or will she stay hidden amongst her classmates? Will Edward finally break the mold that was expected of him and open up his heart to the beautiful and shy Bella Swan? Will he be able to win back the one that got away?

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Edward and Bella are best friends, have been for years. They'd do anything for each other, but would Edward asking her to help him and his wife, Tanya have a baby be the breaking point? Can she sacrifice herself to help them? Will their friendship be able to survive?

Summary: After hearing her son’s birthday wish, Bella decides to contact her ex-boss whom she had a short affair with before quitting, to let him know that he has a son. Edward loved Bella since the first moment he saw her, despite her young age and position he sought her out on many occasions, to merely be rejected in turn. Now that she has returned he hopes they can make things work and finally be together.

Unbeknownst to her, Isabella Swan's fate was sealed when she was 13 years old. Six years have passed and Edward Cullen has determined that it's time to make himself known. Continuation of Original One Shot for We Love Mobward Contest. BPOV

Denmark, 1944: A young Danish woman and a British RAF pilot meet under dangerous circumstances when his plane is shot down over enemy territory. "I have to believe all of this happened for a reason, that I fell in love with him so I could have this opportunity to do good and hopefully make a difference. Edward called me brave, and that's what I'll be. For him."

Bella had worked hard and studied hard. She graduated at the top of class. What would her first assignment be?

Bella and Edward grew up together. They’ve shared a lot of firsts, but never the ones of the intimate sort, both always fearing it would ruin the relationship they had. Now as highly-sought-after, successful adults, neither can take it anymore. One phone call gives them the opening they need, but it’ll be easier than they thinks. Tattella/Tattward; M/NC17 for Language & Adult Activities.

When outlaw Edward Cullen is wounded in a gunfight, he never expected to wake up with a double barrel shotgun nestled under his chin.

Most mothers would do whatever it took to provide for their children, which was exactly what Bella Masen did when she found out her husband had left them. With the walls closing in and the debt collectors on her doorstep, how far was she willing to go?

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Statistics say arranged marriages have a better chance at lasting. Is that still true if the couple is chosen by a group of experts and married on TV with at least one partner in it for the wrong reasons?

A lost bet, the promise of money and a stranger for a bride. Will confirmed bachelor Edward Masen find a match made in heaven or hell?

~Inspired by the show Married at First Sight~

Heavy is the head that wears the crown, noble the ill-prepared to turn it down. Bella is no one, a lady's maid at a girl's school until the princess she serves changes her life with a choice she would never make herself. Now she sets off into a world she doesn't know, betrothed to a man who will never know her.

Bella is a priestess in training; Edward is a woodsman, and they are in love. Edward is given a the task of cutting down tree for the annual Yule Festival. B+E Romance w/metaphysical overtones.

This is an outtake from my story The Alpha. The moment where Peter turns Charlotte.

Edward Masen is the most popular escort working for Esme Platt. He’s the best at what he does and no woman ever goes unsatisfied. He’s smooth, sexy, dangerous and in control. In many ways. His employer holds him to this job due to the debt he needs to repay her. He’s a slave to the job in more ways than one. He lives in the best apartments, dresses in the nicest clothes and drives the best cars. All of it, though, can disappear in a moment’s notice all because Esme knows Edward’s secret. 

Isabella Swan is an heiress to the Swan fortune. Her father, Charlie Swan, owns a string of high end hotels and resorts all over the world. Bella, as her friends call her, is also going through a nasty divorce from her husband, Riley. He cheated on Bella with the limo driver, the gardener, the pool boy and Bella’s assistant, Maggie. She’s bitter and angry, hating all men and abhorring her soon-to-be ex-husband. 

Charlie is having a grand opening for his newest hotel in Seattle, Swan Towers. Bella is expected there, with a date for the lavish party. Rose, Bella’s best friend, suggested that she use a male escort, handing her Esme Platt’s card. Bella calls and asks for the best. Edward arrives, all suave and debonair, but detached and cold. However, the attraction between the two is palpable. 

Will they succumb to their attraction? Will Edward pull Bella down the dark path in his need for control? Or will Bella be his light? Or is all of this a ploy for Buying Love?

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A 3-Shot. Three short stories that tie together to tell you about the Devil’s Mistress and her eternal life as the first night creature. Despite her many creations and lovers, none were worthy enough to stay…except one. Dark Vampella & eventual Dark Vampward. Rated M for non-canon/canon lemons, blood/dark themes. AU. B&E POVs. Separate summaries for each shot.

AU in 1950s Paris. Celebrated private detective Charlie Swan is hired to investigate wealthy playboy Edward Cullen who is suspected of having an affair with a rich businessman's wife. Charlie's innocent but overly curious daughter Bella gets too involved with the case. Based on the plot of the 1957 Billy Wilder movie "Love in the Afternoon." Drabble. Updates EVERY DAY. AH, HEA.

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Former FBI Special Agent Edward Cullen along former LAPD Homicide Detective and his-now-wife Bella Swan-Cullen; Hoodoo Man Sam Uley and his wife Angela Uley, who is a very powerful psychic; former Chicago Police Captain Emmett Cullen and his wife Lauren Cullen, also a very powerful psychic and sister to Angela Uley, have formed a detective agency, The Down on the Bayou Detective Agency.  Come along with them as they investigate the normal, strange and unusual in their files.

From the moment of her birth, Edward Masen has had a soft spot for Isabella Swan, a servant taken in when tragedy strikes her family. As she grows, so do Edward's feelings, but life seems to throw up a string of impediments. When an opportunity presents itself, he must act carefully if they can be together in the light of day. Age of Edward 2015 entry.

Meet Masen.

He is not just any thug growing up in a family of organized crime. He is a man who has changed the way families do business.

Masen is in line to be the next "Boss" for his well connected family, and in one night there is a massacre and all his rivals and their families are wiped out leaving no one left behind. The authorities have no clues as to who, why or how someone could pull off a mass murder of this scale. 

Meet Charlie.

A soldier turned businessman who will stop at nothing to give his little girl whatever her heart desires, and what she wants is something no mafia family has ever been able to stake a claim on...the city of Angels.  

Edward is promiscuous and totally self absorbed. He is the eldest child, the heir to  his father the Duke of Bedford title. Because of this his parents turn a blind eye to his ways. They belief once he's married he will settle down.

Newly divorced Bella goes to Vegas for a work conference. On the advice of friends she lets her hair down and goes out for a night on the town. When she comes back from Vegas, she finds out that what happens in Vegas, doesn't always stay there.

A Dominant & A Gentleman

Growing up with a father in the military was hard on Bella. She made a promise to herself that she would never date or fall for a Marine like her father. That is until she runs into a pair of identical twins that have her reconsidering her rule.

Anthony is shy, extremely polite, and a true gentleman.

Edward appears to be in control and exudes confidence, and has a very dark side.

Will she take the risk or walk away?

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And a heartfelt thank you with undying gratitude to my awesome beta LostInPa who has helped with this story from the very first chapter.

I ♥ you hard!

Edward Cullen is a probation officer. He is used to handling some of the toughest hardened criminals out there. That is until he meets his new proby...Isabella Swan.